Metapopulation models examine patch dynamics over time to answer questions about spatial and demographic ecology.

Metapopulation models have been used to explain life-history evolution, such as the ecological stability of amphibian metamorphosis in small vernal ponds.

Three Micro Habitat Patches Metapopulation # Micro Habitat Patches ( MHPs ) and bacterial metapopulations | MHPs connected by dispersal corridors ( indicated here as ) into a 1D lattice.

" Metapopulation ecology is another statistical approach that is often used in conservation research.

; Metapopulation: All the parasites of one species in a host population.

Metapopulation modeling would seem like an appropriate choice for the Palos Verdes blue, but there is a lack of demographic and genetic information.

Metapopulation Ecology, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Metapopulation biology: ecology, genetics and evolution, Academic Press, San Diego.

Metapopulation theory was first developed for terrestrial ecosystems, and subsequently applied to the marine realm.

* Hanski, I. Metapopulation Ecology Oxford University Press.

After his fall from favour in 1936 over the opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District and the ballet The Limpid Stream, Shostakovich was under pressure to simplify his music and adapt it to classical models, heroic classicism being a prime characteristic of socialist realism.

To simplify production ( in the beginning, anyway ), all cars were to be four-door models, and only two body styles were offered, sedan and convertible.

* To simplify models

An optional character-generator feature on all models provided predefined fonts of 63 characters to simplify display of alphanumeric information.

The Future Systems project was a research and development project undertaken in IBM in the early ' 70s, aiming to develop a revolutionary line of computer products, including new software models which would simplify software development by exploiting modern powerful hardware.

It is common to use idealized models in physics to simplify things.

Functional Design is a paradigm used to simplify the design of hardware and software devices such as computer software and increasingly, 3D models.

In the Lindisfarne Gospels, of around 700-715, there are carpet pages and Insular initials of unprecedented complexity and sophistication, but the evangelist portraits, clearly following Italian models, greatly simplify them, misunderstand some details of the setting, and give them a border with interlace corners.

This design is intended to simplify maintenance and support tasks for large corporations, allowing components to be easily swapped between models.

: Famous German-Brazilians are former military dictator Ernesto Geisel, politician Jorge Bornhausen, actress Vera Fischer, Cacilda Becker, top models such as Gisele Bündchen, Ana Hickmann, Letícia Birkheuer and Rodrigo Hilbert, musicians like Andreas Kisser and Astrud Gilberto, architect Oscar Niemeyer, landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx, physicist and astronomer Marcelo Gleiser, physician Adolfo Lutz, basketball player Oscar Schmidt, tennis player Gustavo Kuerten, swimmer Fernando Scherer, TV host Xuxa Meneghel, Cardinals Cláudio Hummes and Paulo Evaristo Arns and the renowned sailor Robert Scheidt among many others.

This leads one to turn, for example, to optimal foraging theory and other economic models for an understanding of how people exploited the landscape ' rationally '.

Such theories include alternative models of dark energy, such as quintessence, phantom energy and some ideas in brane cosmology ; alternative models of dark matter, such as modified Newtonian dynamics ; alternatives or extensions to inflation such as chaotic inflation and the ekpyrotic model ; and proposals to supplement the universe with a first cause, such as the Hartle – Hawking boundary condition, the cyclic model, and the string landscape.

Indebted to contemporary French and Spanish models, the palace is skillfully related to the landscape.

MSMs are discrete-time master equation models which map out a biomolecule's conformational and energy landscape by describing its set of distinct structures and the transition rates between them.

For pen and paper role-playing games, visual aids such as maps, models, or miniature figures are often used to represent the landscape of a dungeon crawl.

By contrast, the serious transformations that Chinese models effected in the eighteenth century, on the plain style of Early Georgian English furniture, notable in the cabriole leg, or on the " naturalistic " style of English landscape gardening, to take two clear examples, are not considered instances of " Chinoiserie ".

* landform and landscape scale models, often GIS-based, that apply erosion mechanics or statistical relationships to predict changes in topography and erosion rates

The landscape and architecture were influenced by Veneto and Tuscan Italian Renaissance models and designed in the Mediterranean Revival architecture style, with Baroque elements.

Featuring models of the major iconic structures, including Jin Mao, Tomorrow Square, Shanghai World Financial Center, and the new super-tall Shanghai Tower, as well as computer animations, film, drawings, and historic and contemporary photography of the city, the exhibition combines an in-depth look at the new generation of towers with an overview of the sweeping transformation of the city ’ s traditional low-rise landscape into a city of towers.

Human and animal figurines and miniature models of structures and vehicles are placed on top of the bonkei's base landscape to create a fully realized scene.

Instead, many tiny models of these terrain features litter the landscape.

Instead of importing external theoretical models, from other fields Moussavi has focused on those that are specifically architectural, exploring the potentials of the diagram, information technology, landscape, iconography, new construction technologies, blank envelopes and tessellation as tools that could be used to develop alternative theoretical models for the practice of architecture.

In statistics, analysis of variance ( ANOVA ) is a collection of statistical models, and their associated procedures, in which the observed variance in a particular variable is partitioned into components attributable to different sources of variation.

* Analysis of variance ( ANOVA ) – a collection of statistical models and their associated procedures which compare means by splitting the overall observed variance into different parts

The later plus models, 464plus and 6128plus, efforts to prolong the system's lifecycle with hardware updates, were considerably less successful, as was the attempt to repackage the plus hardware into a game console as the GX4000.

The models the team will produce will have broad applications, including inputting into the design of seafloor engineering by oil and gas companies.

Precise modern models of the Big Bang appeal to various exotic physical phenomena that have not been observed in terrestrial laboratory experiments or incorporated into the Standard Model of particle physics.

In 1999, John Earman and Jesús Mosterín published a thorough critical review of inflationary cosmology, concluding that “ we do not think that there are, as yet, good grounds for admitting any of the models of inflation into the standard core of cosmology ”.

Other approaches gaining in popularity include the use of dynamical systems theory and also techniques putting symbolic models and connectionist models into correspondence ( Neural-symbolic integration ).

The original System / 360 models of IBM mainframe had read-only control store, but later System / 360, System / 370 and successor models loaded part or all of their microprograms from floppy disks or other DASD into a writable control store consisting of ultra-high speed random-access read-write memory.

Kits exist which will convert many pistols into carbines by the addition of a shoulder stock ; notable examples are the long barrelled Colt Buntline revolver stock, the Mauser C96 " Broomhandle " holster / stock, and various others for models such as the Browning Hi-Power, Luger, Colt M1911, and the Heckler & Koch VP70.

Excavated sites include Saliagos and Kephala ( on Keos ) with signs of copper-working, Each of the small Cycladic islands could support no more than a few thousand people, though Late Cycladic boat models show that fifty oarsmen could be assembled from the scattered communities ( Rutter ), and when the highly organized palace-culture of Crete arose, the islands faded into insignificance, with the exception of Delos, which retained its archaic reputation as a sanctuary throughout antiquity and until the emergence of Christianity.

Computer models showed that when the dust became charged the particles could self-organize into microscopic helical structures capable of replicating themselves, interacting with other neighboring structures,

The Lt. Kernal hard disk subsystem for the Commodore 64 and Commodore 128 models stored its DOS on the disk, as is the case with modern systems, and loaded the DOS into RAM at boot time.

" Nativist " models of " Universal Grammar " are informed by linguistic universals such as the existence of pronouns and demonstratives, and the similarities in each languages process of nominalization ( the process of verbs becoming nouns ) as well as the reverse, the process of turning nouns into verbs.

Analysis of the design of experiments was built on the foundation of the analysis of variance, a collection of models in which the observed variance is partitioned into components due to different factors which are estimated or tested.

Gray also built a simple loudspeaker device into later models, which consisted of a diaphragm vibrating in a magnetic field.

The data are fed into ECMWF's databases and assimilated into its NWP models to produce:

The Russians, whose side lost, failed to keep up and despite newer models coming into service, I-16s were outfought by the improved Bf 109s in World War II, while remaining the most common Soviet front-line fighter into 1942.

Japanese fascist Nakano Seigo advocated that Japan follow the Italian and German models, which were " a form of more democratic government going beyond democracy " which itself had " lost its spirit and decayed into a mechanism which insists only on numerical superiority without considering the essence of human beings.

In some models of broken Lorentz symmetry, it is postulated that the symmetry is still built into the most fundamental laws of physics, but that spontaneous symmetry breaking of Lorentz invariance shortly after the Big Bang could have left a " relic field " throughout the universe which causes particles to behave differently depending on their velocity relative to the field ; however, there are also some models where Lorentz symmetry is broken in a more fundamental way.